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and supply in the general markets of
the country have been readjusted , In
other words , prices of goods have fallen
to a point where buying will again be
come active. We think that it may be
fairly assumed that the activity in Wall
Street prefigures general activity.
There are some special facts which
sustain this thesis. Several large steel
and iron works that had either sus
pended temporarily or were running on
short time have resumed at their full
capacity. Orders for car-building , of
great magnitude , which had been held
back pending the election , have been
given out. The ship-building trade is
in full tide of prosperity , and new yards
are in course of construction. The ex
portation of stdel and iron products to
foreign countries has been actively re
sumed from both Northern and South
ern mills. The exportation of coal in
large amounts will begin as soon as the
necessary freight room can ba obtained.
Even more significant is the demand for
money. Call loans which ruled at 2 per
cent , or less during the summer , are now
at 4 per cent. , and the demand 'is so
active that importations of gold would
take place but for the heavy sales of our
securities in London and Berlin to
American buyers. While these indica
tions of returning prosperity are to be
welcomed , it is easy to "overdo the
business " both on the Stock Exchange
and elsewhere. New York Evening
Post.
STAKCH QUESTION A STATE ISSUE.
Hon. F. N. Front , candidate for at
torney-general , received the highest
majority of any man on the republican
ticket except McKinley. The attack of
G. J. Smjtb , attorney-general , on the
Nebraska City starch works , caused
every personal friend of J. Sterling
Morton to make a special effort for Mr.
Prout whose opponent is Smyth's
deputy. Everything played right into
republican hands in that election and
the attack upon the starch works
changed as many votes at least as did
the money it is alleged Mark Hanna
shipped into the state. Alliance Pioneer-
Grip.
FACTS ABOUT IOWA.
Iowa is one of the middle western
states that have grown and developed
steadily. It came into the union twenty-
eighth in rank ; this was far in the rear ,
but the agricultural resources of the
commonwealth soon brought it to a
front place. Between 1860 and 1870 ,
during and following the civil war ,
Iowa jumped -from twentieth place to
eleventh. Another rapid advance was
scored between 1870 and 1880. When
the age of the commonwealth is con
sidered , the Hawkeye state cannot be
rivaled in the matter of great and
steady growth and commercial expan
sion. The following table indicates
this :
Census of Population. Rank.
1840 48,112 28
1850 102,214 27
18CO 074,018 20
1870. . . 1,104,020 11
1880. . 1,024,015 10
1890 . 1,011,89(1 ( 10
1000. 10
Population by Counties.
The population of Iowa by counties in
1900 in as follows :
Adair 10,102 Jefferson . . 17,487
Adams 18,001 Johnson 24,817
Allamakee. . . .18,711 Jones 21,954
Appnnooso 25,927 Keokuk 24,979
Aurlubon , . . .18,020 Kossuth 22,720
Bcnton . . . 25.177 Leo 89,719
Blaehhauk 82,809 Linn 65,892
Boone 28,200 Louisa 18,510
Bremcr 10,805 Lucas 10,120
Buchanan 21,427 Lyon 18105
Buena Vista. .10.975 Madison 17,710
Butlur 17,955 Mahaska 34,273
Calhoun . . . . 18,609 Marion. . . .24,159
Carroll. . .20,819 Marshall 29,991
Cass 21,274 Mill * 10,704
Cedar . . . . 10,871 Mitchell 14,010
CerroGordo . . .20,072 Monona 17,980
Cherokee 10,670 Monroe 17.985
Chickasaw 17,037 Montgomery 17,803
Clarke 12,440 Muscatine. . . . 28,242
Clay 13,401 O'Brien 10,985
Clayton 27,760 Osceola 8,725
Clinton 48,823 Page 24,187
Crawford. . . . 21.085 Palo Alto 14,854
Dallas 23.058 Plymouth. . . .22,209
Davis 15,020 Pocahontas . . . .15.C89
Decatur 18,115 Polk 82,024
Delaware 19,185 Pottawattamie. 54,830
Des Moines . . . . 85,089 Poweshiek 19,414
Dickinson 7,995 Bin gold 15,825
Dubuque 50,403 Sac 17,089
Emmet 9,980 Scott 51,558
Fayetto 29,845 Shelby 17,932
Floyd 17,754 Sioux 28,837
Franklin 14990 Story 23,169
Fremont. . . . 18,540 Tama 24,585
Greene 17,820 Taylor 18,784
Grundy 18,757 Union 19,928
Guthrie 18,729 VanBuren. . . 17,854
Hamilton. . .19,514 Wapello 85,420
Hancock 18,762 Warren 20,870
Hardin 22,794 Washington. 20,718
Harrison 25,597 Wayne 17.491
Henry 20,022 Webster 81,757
Howard 14,512 Winnebago 12.725
Humboldt 12,007 Winneshiek 23,781
Ida 12,827 , Woodbury 54,010
Iowa 10.544 Worth 10,887
Jackson . . .23,015 Wright 18,227
Jasper 20,070
Returns of Smaller Cition.
The population of certain incorporated
places in Iowa having a population of
more that 2,000 but less than 25,000 in
1900 is as follows :
Albia 2,889 Knoxville 8,181
Algona. . 2,011 Lake 2,791
Ames 2.422 Leniars 4,140
Anamosa . 2,891 Manchester. . 2,887
Atlantic 5,045 Maquoketa. . . . 8,077
Baxter . . . . 2,021 Mar en go . . 2,007
Belle Plnino 2,283 Marion 4,102
Bloomfield 2.105 Marshalltown. . 11.544
Boone 8,880 Mason 0,740
Burlington. . . . 23,201 Missouri Valley. 4,010
Carroll 2,882 Monticello 2,194
Cedar Falls 5,819 Mount Pleasant. . 4,109
Centerville 6,250 Muscatine 14,078
Chariton. . . . 8,989 Nevada 2,478
Charles 4,227 Now Hampton. . . 2,829
Cherokee 8,805 Newton 8,082
Clarinda 8,278 Oelwein 2,142
Clinton 22,098 Osage 2,784
Colfax 2,053 Osceola 2,505
Corning 2.145 Oskaloosa 9,212
Cresco 2,800 Ottumwa 18,107
Creston 7,752 Pella 2,023
Decorah 8,240 Perry 8,980
Denison 2.771 Red Oak. , . . 4,855
Eagle Grove 8,657 Sac 20.70
Eldora 2.223 Sheldon. . . . 2,282
Emmetsburg , . . , 2,801 Shenandoah 8,275
Esthorville 8,237 Spencer 8,095
Fairfleld 4,089 Storm Lake . . 2,109
Port Dodge 12,102 Stuart 2,079
Fort Madison. . . . 0.278 Tama 2,040
Glenwood. . . 8,040 Tipton 2,618
Grinnell 8,8(50 ( Villisca 2,211
Hamburg 2,070 Vinton 8,499
Hampton 2,727 Washington. . . . 4,255
Harlan 2,422 Waterloo 12,580
Independence. . . 8,050 Waukon 2,153
Indianola 8.201 Waverly 8,177
Iowa 7,987 Webster 4.013
Iowa Falls 2,840 Wintersot 8,089
Jefferson 2,001 What Cheer 2,740
Keokuk 14,041
THE NUMBER OF VOTES.
How many people vote ? In 1890 ,
when the whole country was so deeply
interested in the presidential struggle ,
14,884,780 votes were cast 5,684,148 ,
people tf voting age stayed at home ,
some because they were sick or aged or
infirm , others because they did not
possess the necessary educational or
property qualification and some were
just indifferent. How many there w reef
of this latter class no one can tell. A
student of politics ( Eltweed Pomeroy )
recently gathered some figures in re
gard to this for the years 1888 , 1892 ,
1894 , 1896 and 1898 , which show some
interesting results.
In 1896 the percentage of voters was
71.7 per cent , and in 1898 54 7 per cent.
National questions were involved in
both elections , as congressmen and sena
tors were elected in both years , but in
the former year the fact that a president
was to be elected brought out 2,889,028
voters more than came out in 1898 to
elect congressmen and state officials.
The percentage steadily falls from
presidential elections , to local elections ,
although the citizen comes in contact
with his local government 100 times
where he comes in contact with his
national government once and yet so
curiously perverted is his political per
spective that he ignores the 'former for
the latter.
South Carolina , Louisiana and Wash
ington had the lowest percentage of
voters both in 1896 and in 1898. In the
former year South Carolina fell to 10.6
per cent. , in Louisiana to 9.2 per cent ,
and in Washington to 15.6 per cent.
Utah , Indiana , Virginia , West Vir-
ginia.and Iowa had the highest per cent-
age in 1896 , Utah leading with 113.1 per
cent. ; Virginia , 98 6 per cent ; West
Virginia , 96.2 per cent. ; Iowa , 90.6 per
cent. At first it seems paradoxical that
two states should have over 100 per
cent , but this was perhaps due to the
increase of the voting population since
1890 , when the last figures on this sub
ject were collated. In Utah there is an
additional explanation in the fact that
there is now female suffrage , while in
1890 when the census was , taken only
males were included in the estimate.
The north Atlantic show less fluc
tuation , although Massachusetts and
Rhode Island are far in the rear of New
York , New Jerssy and Pennsylvania.
New York led this group of states in
1896 with 78.8 per cent. , New Jersey
followed with 76 9 per cent , and Penn
sylvania with 72.8 per cent. The close
contest for the first two account for the
high figures , but not in Pennsylvania ,
which is overwhelmingly republican.
It may be due to the patriotism of the
people or to the particular methpds
followed in Philadelphia , where it is
possible for one man to vote thirty-three
times in the same day and another
thirty ei ht times , and for one election